Can those living today live forever?

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If I were immortal, I could live anywhere in the universe.

Those living today will probably not live forever, but the technology of growing organs/body parts, might progress until they are able to replace most anything. I don't know if that would make us immortal, but, it should substantially increase lifespans. It might ultimately depend on brain longevity, because I doubt they could duplicate it exactly, without you becomming someone else. How long can the human brain continue to function healthily?

Have any Christians on here thought that the coming of Singularity (dramatic technological advances) could be the next coming of Christ? Why does Christ have to be in a white robe and a beard?

A technology boom as the second coming of Christ? These are two completely different things. You can't compare them.

The Singularity is the geek equivalent of the Rapture because there are so many utopian themes related to it: extended lifespan, abundant food, cheap commodities, space travel, etc.

A Geek Rapture? I can accept that.

I think the OP was speaking metaphorically. The second coming of christ equates to a technological boom but I challenge that metaphor.

I'd compare a technological boom to a renaissance. Nano technology will be the harbinger of this renaissance. We are living in the dark ages now.

"Living in Dark Ages" is relative.

Your cousins are relative too.

the ridiculousness of the notion of any means by which a singular organism can live forever is profound.

even the notion of a species living forever is absurd.

life on earth began in the statherian period (the last period within the paleoproterozoic era)which was just over 1,800 million years ago.

that was about 1/8th of the way back to the big bang.

since then, no species has gone the full distance.

by far, the more complex species have meteoric rises and catastrophic exits from the blend.

so there are protozoa that have remained unchanged for a very long time.
but each individual is just an "atom" in the fabric of certain protozoan species longevity.

no one thing can retain it's grip within the prime of it's life forever.

when you talk of living 969 years like that meth fellow, even if that was true and you were having a "ball" at 968, and then you were told you had terminal cancer and had six months to live, you would be just as devastated then as you would be today that you are going to end soon.

if death is going to happen sometime, then your life is always just a reduction of days left.. no matter how many days you have to begin with.

there will be a point in every life where there is just one day left.

and it will be just as painful no matter how many days preceded it.

but to be granted a wish for eternal consciousness by a "genie" would result in total and eternal damnation i believe.

i think the universe will expand forever given the data, and this was the only time the big bang will happen. (i do have a "bubble surface tension (lateral gravity between surface layers of universal shells)" idea that may make me think elsewise in the future)

so if i was granted eternal consciousness, i may see the universe drift forever outward, and decay to inert matter and there will never again be life.

the matter may annihilate itself in a complete and final decay after an unimaginable amount of time.

then there is an empty blackness forever and ever.
and i will always be there to see it and i will never sleep.
i will witness it forever.

there is nothing in the universe for me to think about and i am still fully alert and ready.......forever and ever.

that is the worst dream imaginable.
i would say "no" to eternal consciousness.